sync corners tool output with ADE outputs

Either this is a coincidence or two related people asking similar questions - this post looks as if it is coming from the same perspective - /forums/p/16884/1179107.aspx#1179107

There is a SKILL function (actually private, but given that it's obsolete after IC5141 I don't mind mentioning it - especially as it doesn't work ;-> )  corLoadMeasFromSimUI(simID) which is used to send the outputs across to the Corners tool before it starts. However, it has no effect after the Corners tool starts - so it doesn't solve your problem.

Fundamentally the issue is that the corners tool is a separate UI in a separate process (written in Java). There is nothing (I believe) to push information from the main icfb session into the corners tool - the API is the other way around - the Java tool can call functions in the main icfb session. So this would require there to be a menu or button in the corners tool to pull the expressions from the ADE outputs, and this does not exist.

Since the corners tool is replaced in IC61 by ADE XL, which only has a single place to describe the outputs, this becomes a non-issue going forward.

Regards,

Andrew.

 This was pure coincidence.  I have no knowledge of the other post.

The command will work for me if not in the best way.  I can close the window, 

then type a corDeleteAllMeas()

If I then type the command above, the next time I open the corners window, the outputs are updated.  Not perfect, but it gives me something.

Thanks

MarkSummers said:

 This was pure coincidence.  I have no knowledge of the other post.

Spooky!

 Andrew,

 Thank you for responding.  That seems like a great function and a practicle solution, but I cannot figure out how to kill (close) the window wih skill so that I can reopen it with sevCornersTool().

Thanks...

I found a way - it's using private stuff, so caveat emptor (and this will not work going forward in releases after IC5141, and comes with no guarantees):

simId=asiGetCurrentSession()
session=sevSession(hiGetCurrentWindow())
; close the Corners tool
corCallJavaSkillEvents(1 strcat(asiGetName(simId)))
; delete all existing measurements
corDeleteAllMeas()
; now re-populate
corLoadMeasFromSimUI(simId)
; and restart corners
sevCornersTool(session)

Regards,

Andrew.

 Andrew,

 Thank you for the information on that corCallJavaSkillEvents function, I KNEW it had something to do with controlling the Java UI!  This will now allow me to update the javaUI from SKILL.  Thank you VERY MUCH for your help!

 For the future, is there some documentation on these "private" functions that I can find (w/o any guarantees of course)?

Mitchell

Hi Mitchell,

The whole point of the functions being private is that they aren't documented! It would be rather odd going to the effort of documenting them and then making them private.

Generally speaking using private functions is not recommended and is risky - things may change in the code or you may be making assumptions which don't hold true. Since these are in IC5141 which is mature, and they have gone away completely in IC61 because corners is part of ADE XL, they are unlikely to change within the life of IC5141 (given that we are only making essential fixes in IC5141. But they should be used with caution and I would not over-do any work you're doing in this area (especially as it's not going to work in IC61 - although this problem becomes a non-problem in IC61 anyway).

Regards,

Andrew.